Television

CBS Since you’re probably reading this review on your phone or on your laptop, you’re well aware of how deeply technology has permeated our everyday lives. (Unless you printed this out to read on paper, in which case: Respect!) Robert and Michelle King’s new CBS drama “Cupertino” — premiering this Thursday at 10 p.m.; I’ve
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
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Netflix School is back in session at Hillman College. Nearly 40 years after Jasmine Guy’s Whitley Gilbert and Kadeem Hardison’s Dwayne Wayne graced our screens as the leads of the 1987 sitcom “A Different World,” the characters are back with a sequel series (all 10 episodes are now available to stream on Netflix) that both
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Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Wendy Cole. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s
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Chloe Kern/WireImage We love TV with all our hearts here at TVLine — so if anyone is the target audience for the Emmys, it’s us! But we have to admit:Even we found ourselves squirming in our seats at times during this year’s ceremony. Monday night’s broadcast on NBC offered the usual winners, acceptance speeches, and
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Kevin Bacon entered a new stage in his career with the help of “Guiding Light,” one of the longest-running soap operas of all time. Bacon’s early career saw the actor earn appearances in a modest string of feature films, from “National Lampoon’s Animal House” to the iconic slasher “Friday the 13th.” But his first major
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Emerson Miller/Paramount+ Almost 50 years before he joined the hit Paramount+ oilfield drama series “Landman” as cartel big wig Danny “Gallino” Morrell, Andy Garcia made his onscreen acting debut in “Qué Pasa, USA?,” the first bilingual sitcom in the United States. The PBS show, which ran for four seasons between 1977 and 1980, followsthree generations
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FX It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when Danny DeVito’s Frank Reynolds was not a main character on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” There were only four members of the Paddy’s Pub gang in the show’s low-budget, seven-episode first season. Although the addition of DeVito in Season 2 is widely seen today
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HBO How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If your answer is more than once a week, your not-so-niche interest may have sent you on the hunt for TV shows depicting this fascinating period of history. Unfortunately for ancient Rome-heads, television that takes place in ancient Rome is hard to come by. Our
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NBC Eunice Harper Higgins, the melodramatic daughter of the cranky Thelma, first appeared on “The Carol Burnett Show” in a series of sketches called “The Family.”These sketches spawned a TV movie and a television series, but are unrelated narratively and almost feel like two alternate universes for the Harper family. “We got such positive feedback
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NBC Peter Falk played the brilliant detective Columbo over a period of 35 years, and the “Murder, Inc.” actor also wrote one television movie for “Columbo,” which also happens to be his only writing credit. The esteemed crime drama isone of thebest detective shows ever made, and the “Columbo” mystery that Falk penned ended up
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CBS While “The Twilight Zone” may be regarded as one of the best TV shows of the 1960s, that doesn’t mean the anthology series was flawless. While many episodes featured thought-provoking and haunting tales that explored the possibilities of imagination, some stories noticeably fizzled out. Many of those lackluster episodes hinge on plot twists that
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Hallmark Channel Martin Cummins was honing his villain chops on “Kyle XY” years before he stepped onto the Hope Valley set. Currently playingcomplicated businessman Henry Gowen on “When Calls the Heart,” “Kyle XY” hadCummins take on a much more straightforward antagonist.Now considered a cult classic, ABC’s late-2000s hit “Kyle XY”began with a teenage boy waking
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CBS Gilligan (Bob Denver) and his fellow castaways were never actually rescued from “Gilligan’s Island”… not during the original series run, anyway. And if it hadn’t been for a trio of made-for-TV sequel movies, Gilligan, the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.), the millionaire and his wife (Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer), the movie star (Tina Louise),
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Apple TV; HBO; FX We’d never forget about Quotes of the Week. In our latest list below — which rounds up the best sound bites of the past seven days — you’ll find nearly a dozen shows represented, including “Adults,” “Project Runway,” “Lanterns,” “The Paper,”and more. Also featured in this week’s roundup: “Next Gen NYC”
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Bettmann/Getty Images The third episode of the 1950s CBS anthology series “Climax!” was almost lost to time — and with it, the first ever onscreen appearance of James Bond. Eight years before the release of “Dr. No,”CBS approached author Ian Fleming about adapting his recent spy novel for its new anthology show “Climax!” The result
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ABC “Castle” fans still remember the series’ end like it was yesterday — sudden, awkward, confusing, and totally disheartening. Two main cast members were unceremoniously cut from the ensemble during Season 8, with ABC attributing the decision to supposed financial constraints. As these things often go, this relatively vague explanation led to hurtful personal speculation
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Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Back in the mid-1960s, the AdamWest-led “Batman” took the world by storm. Even though the show only existed because other characters’ rights with unavailable,”Batmania”entrenched the nation in a way that would not be seen again until Tim Burton’sbig-screen take in 1989.”Batman” changed the game for superhero TV, parodying comic antics with
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Pamela Voorhees is about to have some seriously bad days. The full trailer for the “Friday the 13th” prequel series “Crystal Lake” dropped Sunday, and it seems that Pamela (Linda Cardellini) can already hear that unsettling “ki ki ki, ma ma ma” taunt ringing through the woods. Not only does the clip tease young Jason’s
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Courtesy of Peacock “M.I.A.” is DOA at Peacock. The streamer has canceled the crime drama after one season, TVLine has confirmed.Deadline first reported the cancellation. The series hailed from “Ozark”creator Bill Dubuque, who also wrote and executive-produced “M.I.A.” Karen Campbell served as showrunner. “M.I.A.” followed Etta Tiger Jonze(played by Shannon Gisela), whose family turned out
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Lucia Casone/Getty Images Not many actors can say they’ve exorcised demons in “Supernatural,” played a twisted superhero in “TheBoys,” and starred in aforgotten sci-fi show from cinema legend James Cameron. But Jensen Ackles can. He appeared opposite Jessica Alba in “Dark Angel,” which was co-created by Cameron and ran for two seasons on Fox from
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Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Comedy legend Carol Burnett‘s wonderfully unique quirkiness thrust her into generational stardom during television’s early Golden Age — but one of her well-known quirks was actually a secret message to her grandmother, one she included in every episode of one of the best series of all time, “The Carol Burnett Show.”
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